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Residents, businesses and workers in West Virginia's Kanawha Valley will easily be able to get millions of dollars in payments from companies for the contamination of the region's drinking water supply, according to documents made public in federal court yesterday.

For at least the third time this month, a federal appeals court has acceded to a late-breaking Trump administration request for a timeout on oral arguments in litigation over U.S. EPA air quality regulations.

The world's tiniest porpoise doesn't have much hope left, according to scientists.

Scientists are turning to new technologies to eliminate invasive plants and animals from the areas they are damaging.

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources reported a record amount of underwater grass in the Maryland side of the Chesapeake Bay, the nation's largest estuary.

For decades, Alaskans have been traveling to Washington, D.C., to ask for help on a small, local road project.

Humpback whales are in an "unusual mortality event," according to biologists, but they don't know why it is happening.

Yellowstone National Park managers are trying change the workplace culture after a report detailed a pattern of sexual harrassment in the maintenance division.

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) said last night that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has assured him it is "unlikely" that any federal lands in Colorado will be included in a review of the boundaries of dozens of national monuments ordered by President Trump this week.

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval is pressing U.S. EPA to heed the concerns of his state and others about proposed changes to Superfund insurance requirements for hardrock mining.

Sportsmen pressed President Trump to block the Pebble mine in Alaska as fears mount that a new regime at U.S. EPA will scrap proposed mining restrictions.

Bill Cooper, a House Natural Resources Committee staffer and a rumored candidate to head the White House Council on Environmental Quality, is reopening the Washington office of a Puerto Rico-based law firm that will have an energy portfolio.

Land Tawney knows public lands.

A backlash against U.S. EPA's decision not to ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos is intensifying.

Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) introduced legislation today to fix "regulatory confusion" about carbon capture and sequestration projects.

Congress this morning passed a one-week continuing resolution to allow negotiators additional time to complete work on an omnibus spending bill for the remainder of fiscal 2017.

A poster spotted in the lobby of U.S. EPA's Washington headquarters last week trumpeted the agency's "Back-to-Basics" agenda.

President Trump this morning nominated a former lobbyist who initially ran his Interior transition team to be the department's second-highest-ranking official.

President Trump signed an executive order today that reverses a ban on drilling in much of the Arctic and ensures a legal fight over an obscure provision of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.

A federal court's decision this morning to pause litigation over the Clean Power Plan is a victory for President Trump, making it unlikely that judges will rule on its legality as U.S. EPA reviews the contentious program.

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